For this fictional robbery, three separate stories get intermingled. It follows on the heels of the actual 1963 Great Train Robbery in the UK.
The plot is about a train robbery of £5 million ($7 million plus) in 1968 (more than $50 million in 2018). It was the most popular film in France in 1969. box office alone was more than 10 times the budget for the film.
in November, and didn't show in the UK until 1970. The opening song, "The Brain," with the title and credits is in English, and the title reads, "The Brain = Le cerveau." The film was made by the French Gaumont studios and was released across much of the European continent beginning with France in March 1969. French is the main language, with the main action taking place in France. All the languages are spoken by the story locales and characters. "The Brain" is a very funny caper comedy movie that takes place in Italy, France, England and the U.S. True, not everyone will like this sort of crazy, super-expensively produced slapstick, but it becomes so well-timed and brilliantly directed, that – once Miss Monti enters the fray – I loved every second and minute of it! French title: Le Cerveau. In fact, it's a pleasure to see a real film director like Gerard Oury spending the producer's money so lavishly and well. In fact, some of the stunts are almost unbelievable, but we see them happening with our own eyes – and on real locations and with hundreds of extras too! Adroit film editing also adds a lot to our entertainment.
Even the direction becomes more amusing and super-delightfully extravagant, while the budget becomes suddenly more and more expensive and expansive. Nevertheless, it's still a bit of a pain until the introduction of super-charming Silvia Monti, at which point it definitely picks up, not only in Miss M's physical attractiveness, but in the level of the farce itself. In fact, the film was actually filmed in two versions. It's fortunate that the other main players – including the delightful Bourvil – speak their own English lines. An obviously dubbed voice for Jean-Paul Belmondo doesn't help matters. True, Gerard Oury's direction is rather inventive, but the acting tends to be so heavy-handed that it smothers the jokes (such as they are). This is the sort of film the critics love to label "a witless farce", and certainly for the first 30 minutes or so, this description would be fair enough.
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